ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,452, issued on March 18, was assigned to TSI Inc. (Shoreview, Minn.).

"High-temperature condensation particle counter" was invented by Hee-Siew Han (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include an exemplary design of a high-temperature condensation particle counter (HT-CPC) having particle-counting statistics that are greatly improved over prior art systems since the sample flow of the disclosed HT-CPC is at least eight times greater than the prior art systems. In one embodiment, the HT-CPC includes a saturator block to accept directly a sampled particle-laden gas flow, a condenser block located downstream ...